Gun-stock



(No Model.)

S. N. STEVENS.

. GUN STOGK.

No. 279,841. Patented June 19,1883.

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SAMUEL 7N. STEVENS, OF ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA.

GUN-STOCK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 279,841, dated June 19, 1883.

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To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, SAMUEL N. STEVENS, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Asheville, in the county of Buncoinbe and State of North Carolina, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Guns, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to improvements in the stocks of fire-arms fired from the shoulder; and it consists in the manner of fastening or securing the springs used to prevent the recoil from jarring the shoulder and in seeuri ng the covering-cap, all of which will be here inafter more fully described, and pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings accompanying and forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a section of the rear end of the breech of a gun, showing the springs and securing-pin. Fig. 2 is an. end view of the wooden breech of the gun, showing the guide-plates. Fig. 3 is an end View of the cov'eringcap.

A. is the wooden breech, having two holes, 0 c, bored into it endwise, of sufficient diameter to receive the coiled springs D, and deep enough for the springs to be screwed down, as will beherei na'lterdescribed. At thebottom of these holes 0 c smaller holes, 0 c, are bored to receive the ends of the guide-pins (1 0 and sufficiently deep to permit these pins (1 G to be driven in far enoughby the recoil of the gun without striking the wood.

B B are metal plates, having a central hole, I), for the guideqrins (l G, and near it a smaller hole, I), for the wire of the coiled spring to freely enter. These plates B are secured by screws 6 c at the four corners. The guidepins 0 (l have their outer ends enlarged and screw-threads 0 cut thereon to fit the nuts 0 0', attached to the end plate, E, of the covering-cap E. There is a hole, I; b, -in the pins (1 ('7', through which one end. of the coiled spring D is to pass, and which end is to be bent down to prevent its withdrawal. \Vhen these springs are thus put in, the other ends of the springs are inserted in the holes I) b in the plates B B, and the ends ol'the guide-pins O C are also inserted in the central holes, 1)? 1/. Then by turning the pins the coiled wires will be sent down to the bottom of the holes 0 c, and the lower ends of the pins will enter the holes 0 0. hen in this condition, the cap E is placed over the breech and the slotted ends 0 J of the pins C C will enter the nuts 0 C. By inserting a screw-driver inside of the nuts 0 the screws can be drawn out until the shoulders (I d on the pins come against the nuts. These pins are so adjusted that the lower ends are in the hole 0 0 when the cap is on, and as represented in Fig. 1. at the bottom. Then, however, the spring will be drawn up so that the end in the hole 0 will be under the plate B, so as to retain the spring within the hole and prevent the cap E from being drawn from the breech.

In Fig. 1 the spring D is represented as be ing run down to the bottom of the hole 0, and the guide-pin (3 some distance within the smaller hole, 0. Both springs and guide-pins are to be thus placed prior to putting on the cap E. hen, the cap is put 011 and the screws of the guide-pins are turned until their shoulders touch-the nuts 0, the springs and guide-pins are as represented in the lower part of Fig. 1, at D and C, and the cap fastened to its place on the breech ol the gun and held on entirely by the springs I): hen the gun is fired, the recoil causes the breech to force the springs against the cap. and the guidepins enter the holes c c. as represented in the upper part of Fig. 1.

I am aware that coiled springs have been variously used for coiultcracting the recoil of ii re-arnis, and ditt'crent devices have-been used in connection therewith to fasten the coveringcap, and. 1 do not broadly claim either the springs to counteract the recoil or lastening the covering-cap; but

\V hat I claim is- In a recoitcheck 'l'or lire-arms, the combibination, with the stock, of the recoil capplate E, provided on its outer portion with screw-threaded orifices 0, adapted to receive the screw-threaded caps of pins (1 said pins being surrounded with and having attached thereto spiral springs 1) ID, the inner ends of said springs extending through the base-plates B B of the stock, whereby the recoil-plate is permitted to have a reciprocating motion and is prevented from disengagement from the l presence of two witnesses, this 27th day of Jan nary, 1883.

SAMUEL NORMAN STEVENS. 5 stock by the DIGELHS'Of the inner ends of the springs, substantially as and for the purpose \Vitnesses: described, W. H. PEN AND,

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature, in J. G. ASTON. 

